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endirector@archivalplatform.orgCopyright 20152015-09-18T09:35:03+00:00archivalplatform/resourceshttps://feedburner.google.comPolitical Apologies Archivehttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/political_apologies_archve/
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How does the act of apologizing enable societies to come to terms with their past? Political apologies can be a powerful tool in the re-examination of a nation’s history, and the significance this history has on democratic processes. The project includes a working list of political apologies throughout history that…
Reports2015-09-18T09:35:03+00:00The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studieshttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/ashgate_companion/
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{image_1}Memory has long been a subject of fascination for poets, artists, philosophers and historians. This timely volume, edited by Siobhan Kattago, examines how past events are remembered, contested, forgotten, learned from and shared with others. Each author in The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies has been asked to reflect…
Books2015-01-23T04:39:13+00:00A Luta Continua (1972) Documentary on Mozambique Liberation Onlinehttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/a_luta/
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A Luta Continua (1972), the noteworthy activist documentary on the Mozambican struggle for independence, is available for the first time in its entirety online. Filmed by an African American crew in close cooperation with the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), A Luta Continua follows the efforts of Mozambican nationalists to end…
Films2015-01-22T06:37:14+00:00Making Peace with the Past? Memory, trauma and the Irish troubleshttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/making_peace/
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{image_1}This book explores the psychic, cultural and political ramifications of memory within the Irish Troubles. It investigates the traumatic impact of the violence perpetrated since 1969; the antagonistic cultural narratives of memory fashioned and mobilised in this context within public and private arenas; and the conflicts, paradoxes and contradictions involved…
Books2015-01-20T14:46:53+00:00NEW SAHA Freedom of Infromation Programme RESOURCES on using PAIAhttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/new_saha/
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In 2014, SAHA worked with various non-governmental and community based organisations across South Africa, conducting workshops to build capacity in the understanding and utilisation of PAIA in the basic education sector. Building on this workshop process, SAHA has released two new guides: Accessing Information for Better Basic Education This guide…
Books2015-01-20T08:13:45+00:00IMBIZA: A Digital repository of the 2010 World Cuphttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/imbiza_a_digital/
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In Zulu culture, an imbiza is a large ceramic pot used for brewing utshwala (sorghum beer). This vessel enables the fermentation of a fluid that facilitates communication with the amadlozi (ancestors) and lubricates social interactions. This virtual imbiza is an open access vessel of primary sources, intended to stimulate the…
Websites2015-01-19T10:46:41+00:00The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justicehttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/the_performance_of_memory/
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{image_1}Based on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina, genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and on to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of…
Books2015-01-19T10:12:46+00:00Apartheid, 1948-1994http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/apartheid_1948-1994/
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This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author’s long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts. The overall…
Books2014-09-08T10:04:31+00:00Justice, redress and restitution; voices of widows of the Marikana Massacrehttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/justice_redress_and_restitution_voices_of_widows_of_the_marikana_massacre/
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The deaths of 34 strikers at the hands of heavily armed South African police, on the 16th of August 2012, rocked viewers across the world. These scenes of police firing on protesters were far too reminiscent of events twenty and thirty years ago â€“ events which South Africans, our elected…
Books2014-09-08T07:10:11+00:00My voice, our story” A collection of young voiceshttp://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/my_voice_our_story/
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his book is a collection of stories from the youth who were involved in the institute for Justice and reconciliation’s youth project, the Ashley Kriel youth Leadership Development Project. This reflects the collective journey participants embarked on and is testimony to their dedication to self-improvement and their commitment to promoting…
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